Clean Cargo Working Group Trade Lane Emissions Factors Report

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BSR's Clean Cargo Working Group

Annually, BSR’s Clean Cargo Working Group (CCWG) discloses trade lane carbon-dioxide-emissions factors for ocean container transport, this year collected from more than 3,200 ships for 22 ocean container carriers that collectively represent 87 percent of ocean container capacity worldwide. Our annual reporting indicates that average carbon dioxide emissions per container per kilometer for global ocean transportation routes were reduced by 2.4 percent from 2015 to 2016. This was also the first year that 100 percent of carriers included in the emissions factors were verified using the CCWG protocol.

Today, CCWG tools represent the industry standard for measuring and reporting ocean carriers’ environmental performance globally. CCWG’s 50 members—including 30 global brands and freight forwarders—benefit from these tools while sharing knowledge and best practices for cutting emissions, and they publicly demonstrate their commitment to global efforts to reduce emissions.